​With the heavy weekend rain, Abbotsley's creek is bubbling brightly again.

The land that is Abbotsley today, along with what is Sarn today, was subdivided in 1979 off two larger blocks - lot 26 which was Edna Walling's 'Sonning' and lot 3 as you can see in the subdivision drawings below.

Next to Abbotsley's gate is a short section of post and rail fence that has been lying on its side and nearly buried in ivy for many years - long before we came here in 2011. So today, during the village working bee, we decided it was time to see if we could lift and support the old fence without it completely falling apart. Success - a little bit of history reclaimed!

This Edna Walling legacy plant seems to be just right for one of the remaining spaces in the Mothers' garden after our May planting

When we moved here there was a tree stump two meters high. We didn't know what to do with it but eventually decided to plant Wisteria at the bottom and see how it turns out. It very quickly grew to the top and now it looks like a deciduous tree in its beautiful autumn colours.
And - in the spring its covered in flowers, in summer its green and in winter gorgeous twisted branches. How versatile is that!

We've finally finished this garden bed project that started last August by planting grevillias, brachyscomes, Isoplexiss and platysaces. Now we've got to wait patiently for them all to grow!
​(Must do something about that possum net over the espalier fruit trees in the background too - not very attractive.)

It's a year since my mother, Sheila Lockett, passed away and our good friends, Jenny and Ken, gave us this beautiful crab apple (ioensis Plena) to celebrate her great life. It's now taken pride of place in the back garden after the possums killed the Crimson Knight crab apple we planted last spring.
​Hopefully, the wire mesh cage will protect the new tree until it gets big enough to fend for itself!
​Mum would have loved it!